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February/March 2019 Issue #02 Dates to Remember March 23Rd - Club Meeting April 5Th - F.F.F.F February/March 2019 issue #02 Dates to remember March 23rd - Club Meeting April 5th - F.F.F.F. (T.B.C.) April 14th - Hawkesbury The official Organ of the Classic Rally Club Inc. (Affiliated with C.A.M.S.) Ramble Rally Directions 23rd April - Club Meeting Notices Turn the page to read about; The Supp. Regs & Entry Form for the Tony Norman’s ‘Mea Culpa’ re the Escarpment Escape. Hawkesbury Ramble are now available How one team managed to win the Apprentice category here on the Club’s website. on the Escarpment Escape without their mascot! The April edition of this magazine should be available in the weekend before the Our Future Star’s C.A.M.S. Award. monthly Club Meeting as usual. Plus much more….. Classic Rally Club Officers and Contacts 2019 Phone (please make calls before Position: Name email 9.00pm) President: John Cooper [email protected] 0414 246 157 Secretary: Tony Kanak [email protected] 0419 233 494 Treasurer: Peter Reed [email protected] 0418 802 972 Membership: Glenn Evans [email protected] 0414 453 663 Newsletter Editor: Bob Morey [email protected] 0402 479 661 Competition Secretary: Tony Norman [email protected] (02) 9804 1439 or 0402 759 811 Championship Pointscorer: Mike [email protected] 0400 174 579 Batten Historic Vehicle Plates: Ron Cooper [email protected] (02) 4261 3018 or 0417 285 138 Webmaster: Harriet [email protected] Phone (please make calls before C.A.M.S. Scrutineers email/location 9.00pm) Tim McGrath (Bronze) [email protected] 0419 587 887 John Henderson (Bronze) Newport / Bathurst 0408 118 427 Tony Kanak (Bronze) Eastwood (02) 9858 2662 (H) or 0419 233 494 Gary Maher (Bronze) North Richmond (02) 4571 1229 Rob Panetta (Silver) Killara (H) / Brookvale (W) (02) 9939 2069 (W) or 0418 963 091 Wayne Paterson (Silver) Blaxland (02 )4739 0577 (H) or 0418 200 949 Jim Richardson (Bronze) Baulkham Hills (H) (02) 9639 0638 (H) or 0418 644 284 Peter Jakrot (Bronze) Willoughby 0419 983 247 Glen Innes (Bronze) Figtree 0409 293 241 R.M.S. Inspectors for Club Plate Phone (please make calls before email vehicles 9.00pm) Tim McGrath [email protected] 0419 587 887 Peter Thomson (02) 9419 5774 2 Johns Jabber Hi Everyone, you may be wondering what happened to your February edition of Rally Directions. Well Bob is going away, we hadn't had any events and a lack of content from you all made it necessary to combine the February & March editions together. So welcome to this edition of our Club magazine. The next edition will be bigger and better if you start sending your stories in now and don't forget photos! Summer is now passed and I hope you all got through some pretty hot days without too much discomfort. Australia; with record temperatures in Sydney, drought in western NSW, massive floods in Queensland, and bush fires in Tassie. What a country of extremes we live in. Our Classic Rally calendar started off with a great roll up for the first event, The Escarpment Escape Rally run by Tony Norman. The event featured a fantastic start location at the Motorlife Museum at Dapto. There was plenty of time for registration, a look through the museum, a social chat and catch up, driver’s briefing and a cuppa in a real mug. Tony put together a great days rallying/driving through some fantastic country side with great roads and some magnificent scenery down the south coast and the escarpment. There were a few navigational issues but we managed to finish the day with a smile on our faces having a cold drink in the Shellharbour Club. Well Done and thanks to Tony for all the effort and time you put into organising one of our rallies, and thank you also to all the officials. We will now be looking forward to our next club rally on the 14th April, The Hawkesbury Ramble. I hope we can keep the pleasing number of entries up in future events. We had a fairly good roll up at our first General Meeting in January as well as at the February meeting. Not only do we discuss club business, register reports and rallies etc, it's a monthly catch up to socialize, chat, meet other members and have a feed together. So if you haven't been along for a while we would love to see you there. Dave Johnson's Historic Rally Club are running The Black Stump Rally at the end of March, the 28th, 29 & 30th. Check out the flyer later in this mag. or the CRC or HRC website for more details. It has something for everyone including a Tour category on sealed roads or dirt special stage sections and night navigation. You can chose the level of competition that suits you. The event will be a great few days in the central west area of NSW centred on Parkes returning there each night. At the conclusion there will be a presentation dinner on the Saturday night. Many crews are coming up from Victoria to take it out, so they reckon! They believe they have it over us New South Wales crews, we will have to see. Hurry up entries close very soon. I will be heading down to Victoria this weekend for the Phillip Island Historic races with a fair few other CRC members attending. Hopefully we’ll have a BBQ catch up whilst we are there and there is a good chance of bumping into some of those over confident Mexicans. I will tell you more about it next month and maybe include some photos. Talking of photos don't forget to send your photos from our events to Bob for the mag. Well that's my bloomin lot for now , say safe and hope to see you soon, Cheers John Cooper President. 3 Editor’s Note. This month we are making use of our revamped web site to distribute the magazine. If you are on the email magazine distribution list you will have received an email containing a link to this copy of the magazine file on the web site. There are a number of reasons for changing the method of distribution of the monthly magazine. Harriet Jordan, our Webmaster, has extensively revamped the web site to give it better look and make it a hub for supplying information about the Club. Distributing the magazine from the web site is part of this strategy. Another reason is that sending the magazine to members in this way makes the editor’s job much easier Since we stopped sending out printed copies of the magazine each month I have spent a large part of one whole day a month sending 250 emails to members using home software on a domestic, non NBN, connection. This is not fun! I hope the Club’s members are happy with this change. Bob Morey Secretary’s Stuff- February 2019 Hello everyone, a couple of things to report from the January meeting: It is virtually certain that the MG Spring Classic will not be a feature of the CRC program this year. This is a shame after such a long period of having this reliably good fixture in the calendar. However all good things come to an end and it may be that in the future the MG Car Club’s new management will examine its activities and priorities, and in conjunction with some new blood, take up the event organisation challenge again. Meanwhile thanks especially to Jim Richardson and his assistants and predecessors for making this event so successful. HCRS- The renewal process for the permitting of HCRS vehicles for Club members, will commence soon, and Ron Cooper will advise those folks so affected. Mike Batten outlined an event to be known as the Hawkesbury Ramble on April 14th. This will give the Wollondilly area a rest. Provisionally the event will start and finish at Pitt Town, though knowing Mike’s devious plans, I wouldn’t entirely rule out lunch at Thirlmere again? President John Cooper presented Harriet Jordan with the 2018 President’s Trophy/Award for her extensive work over many years with the CRC website, and particularly for its major overhaul recently. Many thanks Harriet! CRC 25th Anniversary- planning has begun to observe this milestone later this year, and the C’tee is assessing a number of options. More news as it comes to hand…. A suitably talented and available person is sought for the position of Regalia Officer. It is timely for the Club to look at some new ideas and items for regalia. If you think you are ready, willing and able to help, please contact the Secretary or President, any time. Now, not from the January 2019 meeting, but from the Daily Telegraph of 30th January-as they printed it; “On this day in 1919 Stanley Roy Mc.Alpine registers his food manufacturing company Three Threes, which began with Roy and his wife Winifred Grace making pickles in their Sydney home and delivering them by horse and cart.” Still going strong in family hands, as Three Threes, the CRC congratulates the Mc.Alpine Family on this achievement! (By the way Peter, the Mighty Mite didn’t help with the gearbox whine….. maybe I should try one of the relish products)? Tony Kanak 4 COMPETITION SECRETARY REPORT FOR FEBRUARY/MARCH Our competition year got underway on the 23rd February with the running of The Escarpment Escape.
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